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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The peculiar arrangement exhibited by red blood-corpuscles when they unite to form columns like stacked-up coins.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) The arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is examined under the microscope.
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- noun physiology The arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is examined under the microscope.
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vendingmachine commented on the word nummulation
The peculiar arrangement exhibited by red blood-corpuscles when they unite to form columns like stacked-up coins.
(All the definitions make the comparison to stacked-up coins. Hmm.)
January 18, 2022
ry commented on the word nummulation
the persistent reference to coins is probably due to the word, I assume, being derived from LL numisma, similar to numismatics
January 19, 2022